Where does “turbussjåfør” come from?
turbussjåfør (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål sjåfør, from French chauffeur, from French chauffer, from Middle French chauffer, from Old French chauffer, from Old French chaufer, from Vulgar Latin calefare, from Latin calefaciō.
turbussjåfør (Norwegian Bokmål): a coach driver
Definitions
- a coach driver
Ancestry of “turbussjåfør”, step by step
turbussjåfør traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål sjåfør
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | sjåfør | driver; chauffeur; A person employed to drive a... |
| 2 | French | chauffeur | stoker; fireman; driver; chauffeur |
| 3 | French | chauffer | to heat, to warm, to warm up; to tease, to entice... |
| 4 | Middle French | chauffer | — |
| 5 | Old French | chauffer | Alternative form of chaufer |
| 6 | Old French | chaufer | to heat; to heat up; to warm |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | calefare | — |
| 8 | Latin | calefaciō | to warm or heat |
| 9 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 10 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 11 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 12 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Norwegian Bokmål turbuss
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | turbuss | a coach |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | buss | bus; a quid of chewing tobacco |
| 3 | English | bus | A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of... |
| 4 | English | omnibus | A vehicle set up to carry many people; An... |
| 5 | French | omnibus | Pertaining to a local; omnibus, bus |
| 6 | Latin | omnibus | dative masculine plural of omnis; dative feminine... |
| 7 | Latin | omnis | every; all |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | opnis | every, all |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ep-ni-s | working |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ep- | to work, toil, make; ability, force |